Sentences with phrase «direct changes in air temperature»
Permafrost is very sensitive to direct changes in air temperature and snow cover, making it especially vulnerable to global warming.
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«Pick a location that isn't in the direct pathway of your air - conditioning or heating vents,» Herman says, since sudden temperature changes will startle and disturb baby.
Climate change in southern Africa affects animals through the direct effects of increasing air temperatures and aridity.
Because of the spatial homogeneity of tropical free - tropospheric temperature, when one sees tropical glaciers recede in concert, there is strong reason to presume that air temperature is playing a direct role, temperature being the one thing that is expected to change in lock - step throughout the tropics.
Dana, I think you are pushing in the right direction with this; heat content is a much more direct measure of the underlying changes to the climate system than average air temperatures and climate science communicators should make heat content their first response to the suggestion that global warming is something that waxes and (allegedly, recently) wanes.
The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and, indirectly, from increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes in many physical and biological systems.